Hawai'i One Summer - Maxine Hong Kingston

Hawai'i One Summer

By Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Release Date: 2014-08-10
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Description

Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior.
 
In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective.
 
From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston’s exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge.